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Breadfruit: Artocarpus altilis

Breadfruit tree

Selected Readings on Breadfruit

BLIGH, WILLIAM. 1792. A Voyage to the South Sea. For the Purpose of Conveying the Breadfruit Tree to the West Indies in H.M.S. Bounty. George Nicol, London.
CORONEL, R.E. 1983. Promising Fruits of the Philippines. College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines at Los Banos.
GRAHAM, H.D. and E. NEGRON DE BRAVO .1981. Composition of breadfruit. Journal of Food Science 46:535-539.
MORTON, J. 1987. Fruits of Warm Climates. Julia F. Morton, Miami, FL.
www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/breadfruit.html
POWELL, D. 1977. Voyage of the Plant Nursery, HMS Providence. 1791-1793. Economic Botany. 31:387-431.
RAGONE, DIANE. 1987. Breadfruit Varieties in the Pacific Atoll. Integrated Atoll Development Project. United Nations Development Project, Suva, Fiji.
RAGONE, DIANE. 1991. Ethnobotany of breadfruit. Pp 203-220. In: Islands, Plants, and Polynesians. P.A. Cox & S.A. Banack (Eds.). Dioscorides Press, Portland.
RAGONE, DIANE. 2001. Chromosome numbers and pollen stainablilty of three species of Pacific Island breadfruit (Artocarpus, Moraceae). American Journal of Botany 88: 693-697.
www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/abstract/88/4/693
RAGONE, DIANE. 2003. Breadfruit. Pp 655-661. In: Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition. B. Caballero, L. Trugo, and P. Finglas (Eds.). Academic Press, San Diego.
TRUJILLO, E.E. 1971. The Breadfruit Diseases of the Pacific Basin. Information Document 27. South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia.